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Cover Image:
Locher, Jakob. Panegyricus ad Maximilianum. Tragoedia de Turcis et Soldano. Dialogus de heresiarchis.
Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1497.
Title Page Image:
A detail from the printer’s mark of Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari
ISBN: 978-0-88901-445-9
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Of the many thousands of works in the General Rare Book Collection of the Queen Elizabeth II Library and the rare
collections of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, fewer than one-hundred represent the period from 1450 to
1600. This catalogue focuses on twenty-six volumes from the Library’s holdings that were written or printed during
the Renaissance period. The selected volumes point geographically to centres of book production at the time, both
in the long-established manuscript world and in the rapidly-expanding print world. The catalogue includes works
created in areas known today as the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and England. The early print
works demonstrate stylistic traits that were new developments at the time, including title pages, page numbering
and roman and italic fonts. They also point to new developments in the book trade, namely to a growing market for
literatures written in the vernacular. Whether in manuscript form or in print, the texts highlighted in this catalogue
expose some of the major concerns of the late-medieval and Renaissance mind: the demand for devotional
literature, a continued interest in works of the Middle Ages, an interest in Classical works, astrology, law, medicine
and travel literature. The books also provide—in the form of bookplates, ownership inscriptions, armorial stamps,
library stamps, annotations, wormholes and scribbles— tantalising glimpses of the journeys they have taken over
hundreds of years from the various European stationer’s shops and print shops that produced them to their current
home, an ocean away.
The late medieval period registered an increased demand both for liturgical works and for devotional works that
could be used in private. The most common type of book used in private devotion was the Book of Hours, many of
which were exquisitely decorated. The core of any Book of Hours is a set of devotions known as the Hours of the
Virgin, a standard series of prayers and psalms intended to be used in honour of the Virgin Mary at each of the
canonical hours of the day. Books of Hours always open with a calendar listing important religious feast days
throughout the year, with those of local importance written in red ink. Because a Book of Hours was not an official
Church service-book but a compendium largely made by secular booksellers for use by laity, variations abound.
These variations are used by scholars to establish the place and date of manufacture of these unique books. The
oldest complete manuscript in the General Rare Books Collection of the Queen Elizabeth II Library is a Book of
Hours, Use of Utrecht (Figures 1 & 4), produced in Haarlem sometime between 1455 and 1465. It is a decorated
manuscript on vellum and is written in Dutch. The Collection also contains a second Book of Hours, of
Premonstratensian Use (Figures 13-15). It is an illuminated manuscript on vellum, written in Latin and French, and
it was produced in the southern Netherlands around 1500.
The liturgical book most in demand in the late medieval period was the missal, used by all priests in
celebrating Mass. The General Rare Books Collection of the Queen Elizabeth II Library contains one such mass
book, a decorated manuscript on vellum, produced in the Netherlands around 1475, and written in Latin (Figures 5
& 6). Because this book was meant to be read from the church altar, it is in larger format. Missals are non-linear in
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structure. The priest began the Mass by opening to the centre of the book before moving to other areas of the text,
as dictated by the type of mass or the particular date in the church year. The centre pages of this particular missal
are marked by leather tabs. Not surprisingly these pages are soiled, indicating heavy use.
Finally, the Collection contains one other manuscript that gestures broadly towards humanist scholarship.
The work, A Treatise on Virtue, is fragmentary, written in Latin, and combines biblical, patristic, medieval,
scholastic, and classical sources (Figures 24 & 25). This decorated manuscript on vellum was produced in Northern
France, probably in Paris, sometime between 1500 and 1525. Its small format marks it as a volume for personal
reading.
The term incunable (Latin ‘swaddling clothes’ or ‘cradle’) generally refers to typographical books (though some
scholars also include block books) that were printed in Europe before the year 1501. During this period,
conventions in book design that we generally associate with the printed book began to develop. It was a period of
growth and change for the book trade as printers experimented with how best to exploit changing means of
production to create new markets.
There are five incunables in the General Rare Books Collection of the Queen Elizabeth II Library. The
earliest is a classical work, Epigrammata (Figure 7), by the Roman/Iberian poet Marcus Valerius Martial, with
commentary by the Renaissance scholar Domizio Calderini (Domitius Calderinus). It was printed by an unknown
press in Venice in 1480. The Collection also contains the1489 edition of thirteenth-century theologian Richard
Middleton’s (Richardus de Mediavilla) commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (Figure 8), a standard
textbook of theology in the late Middle Ages. The edition was printed in Venice by Dionysius Bertochus. There is a
compendium of works in poetry and prose by Jakob Locher, printed by Johann (Rheinard) Grüninger at Strassburg
in 1497 (Figures 9 & 10). Also part of the Collection is another work printed in Strassburg, this one by Martin
Flack, a year later, in 1498: it is a work on Christian life that is often attributed to the thirteenth-century theologian
and philosopher Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) (Figures 11 & 12). Finally, there is a collection of verses by
Roman poets Gaius Catullus, Albius Tibullus and Sextus Propertius, with commentaries by various Renaissance
scholars, printed in Venice by Johannes Tacunius in 1500 (Figure 16). All of the incunables held in the Queen
Elizabeth II Library General Rare Books Collection are written in Latin.
The incunables in the Collection reflect the geographical spread of typographic printing in the latter half of
the fifteenth century. Dominated by German centres in the early decades, printing rapidly spread to other countries,
with Italy, and in particular Venice (due to its commercial power and the fact that it was a major centre for the
manufacture of paper), becoming the dominant hub of print culture by the end of the fifteenth century.
In terms of subject matter, these incunables reflect two major intellectual demands of the period: the first
was for books with religious themes written by authors from previous centuries, while the second was for works by
classical authors. Jakob Locher’s book is notable in that it is the work of a contemporary author; it also contains
many fine woodcuts, a number of them repurposed from the Strassburg editions of Terence and Sebastian Brant’s
The Ship of Fools. Conspicuously absent from our incunables are works written in the vernacular.
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Stylistically, incunables tend to resemble medieval manuscripts. As one scholar puts it, the early printed
book—both in its design and content—was not so much revolutionary as evolutionary (Smith 29). The five
incunables on display show strong ties with the manuscript tradition. Pages often begin with a decorated or
historiated woodblock capital (Figure 16). Initial blank spaces with guide letters were sometimes left in the text
body so that decorative hand-drawn capitals could be added later (Figures 8 & 11). There is a notable absence of
paragraphs. Verses are often surrounded by commentary, mimicking the scholia or glosses in medieval manuscripts
(Figures 7 & 16). Two incunables in our collection follow the manuscript tradition by beginning the main text with
an incipit (a heading, often rubricated, providing the title of the work) (Figure 8) and ending it with an explicit (a
closing statement, sometimes equated with the colophon). As well as sharing similarities with manuscripts,
incunables also offer evidence of new developments in book design: the beginnings of the title page (Figures 10
&12), page numbers, the use of roman and black letter fonts, the use of the colophon and the printer’s device; all
became established stylistic elements in the sixteenth century.
The seventeen works in this catalogue printed in the sixteenth century offer an incomplete representation of the
geographical contours of the print world at that time. Four works printed in Venice give a sample of work from a
city that had come to dominate the book trade by the end of the fifteenth century. The Italian Wars of the early
sixteenth century disrupted the economic life of Venice, however; one result of this was the expansion of the book
trade in northern Europe. Five works printed in London, three in Basel, two in Paris, and one each in Lyon,
Bamberg and Frankfurt represent growing centres of printing and distribution. Major printing operations were also
established in Antwerp, Wittenberg and Leipzig.
In terms of subject matter, six of the seventeen titles reflect the humanist obsession with recovering the
great works of antiquity, and include a compendium of works by the Latin poets Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius
printed in 1502 (Figure 17 &18); epistolary poems by Ovid (Figure 19), printed in 1510, and a 1541 print edition of
the comedies of Terence (Figure 31). The vogue for dictionaries and encyclopaedias related to the classical period
is evidenced by three works; Suida (1514), a Greek lexicon and encyclopaedia (Figure 21); a Greek thesaurus or
dictionary by Julius Pollux, printed in 1536 (Figure 27); and Polyhistor (1538), a collection of curiosities of the
ancient world by Gaius Julius Solinus (Figure 29). The Reformation and religious upheavals of the period are
characterised by three works, two of which are in book form: Matthew Parker’s The Holie Bible (1568), also known
as the Bishop’s Bible (Figure 38), and Thomas Cooper’s defence of the Church of England, An Admonition to the
People of England (Figure 41), printed in 1589; while the torrent of ephemeral literature that fuelled religious
debate is represented by Nuremberg painter Hans Greiffenberger’s pamphlet “Ein Christenliche Antwordt denen…”
printed in Bamberg in 1524 (Figure 26). Continued interest in works written during the medieval period is
demonstrated by a 1514 print edition of ninth-century Paul the Deacon’s A History of the Lombards (Figures 22 &
23); by a 1541 printing of Joseph of Exeter’s twelfth-century Latin poem about the fall of Troy (Figure 32). The
appetites of an expanded readership are evidenced by a short book about astrology, Fortunetelling, printed in
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Frankfurt in 1541 (Figures 33 & 34); by John Lydgate’s The Fall of Princes (1554), a version of Boccaccio’s The
Fates of Famous Men (Figure 36); by William Bullein’s Bullwarke of Defense Against All Sickness (Figures 39 &
40), printed in 1579; and by Ferdinando Pulton’s An Abstract of All the Penal Statues (Figure 42), printed in 1600,
an early attempt to create a comprehensive book on the subject of English criminal law. Finally, there is Franciscan
priest André Thevet’s 1561 speculative account of travels to the New World, Historia dell'India America…(Figure
37), which makes reference to Newfoundland.
Of the volumes noted above, nine are in Latin or Greek and eight are in vernacular languages: two in
German, one in Italian and five in English. It is characteristic of the English book trade of the time that the vast
majority of books printed in that country were printed in the common language. The English market for scholarly
works in Latin was satisfied by imports from the major printing centres in Europe. Renaissance scholar Andrew
Pettegree estimates that of the 345,170 editions printed in Europe between 1450 and 1600, 179,202 were in the
vernacular (Pettegree 357).
Among the Queen Elizabeth II Library’s General Rare Books Collection holdings of sixteenth-century
books are some notable editions. Among the Venetian imprints are two books by perhaps the most famous
Renaissance printer, Aldo Manuzio (Aldus Manutius). The first, a pocket edition, was published in 1502 (Figures
17 & 18) and the second in 1514 (Figures 20 & 21). Pocket editions of the classics were an innovative and key part
of Manuzio’s printing business. Basel, a city synonymous with scholarly publishing in that period, is represented by
the work of the Johann Froben, a close associate of the Dutch humanist Erasmus (Figure 35). Froben’s printing
business was carried on by his son Hieronymus and later by his grandson Ambrosius. Another celebrated imprint is
that of the Parisian printer Robert Estienne, “Printer in Greek to the King.” (Figure 31) Many of Estienne’s Greek
typefaces were designed and made by Robert Garamond. Notable, as well, is the first edition of the Bishop’s Bible.
Printed by R. Iugge, in London, in 1568, it has often been described as a typographical masterpiece (Figure 38).
Stylistically, these books show the development of the printed book and its consolidation into a form that
made it relatively distinct from its manuscript predecessor. News type styles were developed. Nicholas Jenson
began using roman font in Venice around 1470. Aldo Manuzio commissioned a new font based on humanist scripts
that became known as italic typeface. Initially, the whole text block was presented in italics (Figure 17); it was
only later that italics became used as a means of highlighting text (thus taking on the role played by rubrication in
medieval manuscripts). Manuzio also commissioned Greek fonts in cursive.
Another key stylistic development of the period was the development of the title page. Little more than
labels to begin with, title pages in the sixteenth century soon became more elaborate. An interesting example is the
title page of Paul the Deacon’s History of the Lombards, printed in 1514. The title sits within an ornamental border
and bears the mark of the Parisian bookseller and printer Jean Petit (Figure 22).
One final development in book design that took place during the Renaissance was the addition of page
numbering. Although a small number of early printed books number folios or leaves (Figure 8), it was not until the
third decade of the sixteenth century that the practice of numbering pages in Arabic numerals became established
(Smith 150). The earliest titles in the Queen Elizabeth II Library’s General Rare Books Collection to show page
numbering are those printed by Sébastien Gryphe in 1538 and Robert Estienne in 1541. It is perhaps an indication
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of the insularity of English printers that with the sole exception of Cooper’s Admonition—some parts of which are
foliated and others have page numbers—all of the volumes in this catalogue printed in London are foliated, even
those created at the end of the sixteenth century.
These books are survivors and have had many owners since they first rolled off the presses as printed sheets. Not
surprisingly, they preserve traces of their past lives. Bookplates, ownership inscriptions, armorial stamps, library
stamps, annotations and scribbles all can provide clues to the history of ownership for a particular volume.
Information about the provenance of each item (when available) is presented in this catalogue. One notable example
is that of Paul the Deacon’s, History of the Lombards, which presents evidence of four different owners. The
parchment over pasteboard binding bears, in gold leaf, an armorial stamp identical to that of Jean L’Evesque de la
Cassiere, who was grandmaster of the Order of Malta from 1572-1581. There is an ownership inscription on the
title page “Gothofredi Dalij,” dated 1611 1 (Figure 22). The inside cover bears the book plate of Wilhelm Cornelis
Baert de Waarde (1864-1951), a squire of Waarde, a village of the borough of Zeeland, in modern-day Netherlands.
Wilhelm was the grandson of Willian Cecilius Baert (1806-1867), an official “ambachtsheer” (a judge) of Waarde.
The title page also bears the stamp of the “Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie,” in the Hague, which was founded in
1945, and which still sells antiquarian books.
While the twenty-six titles highlighted in this catalogue can be used to illustrate broad developments in the book
trade, in book design and in literature generally between the years 1455 and 1600, there are whole areas of that
era’s print culture that are barely or not represented at all in the holdings of the Queen Elizabeth II Library. Chief
among these is ephemera: religious indulgences, ordinances and proclamations; broadsheets of ballads and songs;
music in printed form, which made great strides in the sixteenth century; pamphlets reporting on wars and battles,
on the discoveries of new lands, as well as accounts of prodigies and sensations; popular literature of the time in the
form of the epic poem and chivalric romances; as well as school texts, almanacs, and works of science. While
students and faculty of Memorial University have access to these literatures in the form of print and electronic
facsimiles, future collection development efforts will look to add examples of these literatures in their original
formats.
1 The handwriting is consistent with annotations throughout the text. Professor Alain J. Stoclet of the University of
Toronto strongly suspect that this Godfrey Daly or O’ Daly was a member of an important bardic family,
traditionally attached to the kings of Munster , who fled to the continent following the Elizabethan conquest of
Ireland at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
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Figure 1: Hours of the Cross, Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht
Figure 2: Dog's Head Figure 3: Beardman Figure 4: Man's Head
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Use of Utrecht, in Dutch, decorated manuscript on vellum [Haarlem, c.1455-65].
165 x 117 mm. [179] leaves. The written area measures 83 x 59 mm. Each page has 19 lines written in a
gothic book hand in black ink, rubrics in red, text capitals touched red, one-and two-line initials alternately
in red or blue, three-line initials alternately in red and blue with flourishing in purple or red to side margin,
six large puzzle initials in red and blue with extensive flourishing in red and purple to upper and side
margins. The fine penwork is an example of the inventive patterning developed particularly in the northern
Netherlands, where proponents of the Devotio Moderna argued against excessive luxury and display. The
Calendar includes saints especially revered in the County of Holland, part of the diocese of Utrecht, with
Saint Bavo, patron of Haarlem parish church in red (2 October). It agrees with the calendars in other
manuscripts written by this scribe, identified by Margriet Hülsmann, active in Haarlem c.1455 - c.1465.
Signature of Charles Aldenburg Bentinck (1810-1891) of India House, Bovey Tracy, Devon: with note
'bought at Exeter 1832.’ Signature of Major J.R. Abbey (1894-1969), his gilt-stamped armorial leather
book plate inside upper cover; his name and addresses and date of purchase, January 1943. The binding is
contemporary brown calf stamped in blind with a panel of the Lamb of God in a roundel within a mandorla,
the symbols of the four Evangelists in the corners. A digital copy of this work may be viewed on Memorial
University Libraries’ Digital Archives Initiative at http://collections.mun.ca/u?/rarebooks,1117

Figure 5: Dutch Missal, Fol ix, with decorated initial
Figure 6: Dutch Missal fore-edge with leather tab, clasp and corner mount
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(Major Feasts (Christmas, Easter, etc.), Proper of Saints, Canon, and some Masses for
the Common), in Latin. Manuscript on vellum, the Netherlands, ca. 1475.
293 x 210 mm. [96] folios. The written area is 202 x 140 mm. Each page has 24 lines in double columns in
dark brown ink in a gothic hand. The manuscript is not complete. It lacks one quire (Common of Saints)
and five folios. The preface and music on folios 2-6 were added at a later date in a different hand. There are
dozens of Lombard initials in blue and red, with rubrication. There are over fifty decorated initials of twoto-four
lines, sometimes larger, in blue or red with red penwork infilled with green and with penwork
extensions. Some stray marginal annotations, additions, and corrections. Two quires were rubricated in a
bright blue ink. There are two stamps on the work, one locating the book at Cologne Cathedral, the other
placing it in a Jesuit provincial library. The binding has been extensively repaired, though parts of the
original can be seen. The Canon is tabbed (one tab has survived). A digital copy of this work may be
viewed on Memorial University Libraries’ Digital Archives Initiative at
http://collections.mun.ca/u?/rarebooks,921

Figure 7: Page from Martial's Epigrammata
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Epigrammata. Venice: (Printer of the 1480 Martial), 1480.
Folio. 220 x 320 mm. [223] leaves. The Latin text is in roman type with spaces left for capitals to be handdrawn.
There is an ownership inscription on first blank page; marginal annotations in an early hand; some
tiny round worm holes at end of volume (not affecting text); manicula on b4 and overleaf, some doodles
and possible pen trials at the top margins of the subsequent few pages. The binding is contemporary blindtooled
calf over wooden boards. The text is of Martial’s (AD 40-104) epigrams with commentary by the
Renaissance scholar Domizio Calderini (Domitius Calderinus). This work is one of the earliest print
examples of humanistic commentary on a classical author. Calderini’s commentaries were critically
successful; many of them remained standard works well into the sixteenth century. The printer is unknown.
The British Museum Catalogue identifies three editions of 1480, signed "Venetus", which constitute the
total recognized output of this anonymous printer.

Figure 8: Lombards The Sentences: Incipit and hand-drawn initials
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Commentum Super Quarto Sententiarum. (ed. by Franciscus Gregorius). Venice:
Dionysius Bertochus, 1489.
Folio. 220 x 310 mm. [217] leaves. The Latin text is in double columns of 64 lines each and is printed in
roman font. There are capital spaces with guide letters. The text is rubricated with initials provided in red
by a contemporary hand. There are occasional pen flourishes in the margins. The work begins with an
incipit and ends with an explicit. The binding is early blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. At a later
time the boards were covered with leaves from an unidentified incunable and spine labels were added. The
work is Franciscan philosopher and theologian Richard Middleton’s (b. ca. 1249) (Richardus de
Mediavilla) commentary on medieval theologian Peter Lombard’s (ca. 1096 -1164) Libri Quatuor
Sententiarum or the Four Books of Sentences. The Sentences is a compilation of biblical texts, with
relevant passages from the Church Fathers and many medieval thinkers. It gives an overview on virtually
the entire field of Christian theology as it was understood at the time. All the major medieval thinkers, from
Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas to William of Ockham and Gabriel Biel, engaged with it. At a later
date, it influenced both Martin Luther and John Calvin. This edition was printed by Venetian printer
Dionigi Bertocchi (Dionysius Bertochus) was active in that city between the years 1481–1502.

Figure 9: Jakob Locher at work
Figure 10: Locher: crude title page
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Panegyricus ad Maximilianum. Tragoedia de Turcis et Soldano. Dialogus de
Heresiarchis. Strassburg: Johann Grüninger, 1497.
Quarto. 140 x 20 mm. [62] leaves. The title page and headings are in black letter. The Latin main text is in
roman type. There are 19 woodcuts, two of them a full-page each. 13 of the woodcuts were taken from
Strasbourg editions of Terence and Sebastian Brant’s The Ship of Fools; 6 woodcuts appear here for the
first time. There is a full-page woodcut of the author on the verso of the title-page. The binding is half
vellum, possibly nineteenth-century. The text consists of three long works and a number of shorter works
in poetry and prose by the poet Jakob Locher (1471-1528). The middle poetical work "Tragedia de Thurcis
et Suldano" was an early admonition against the Turks in five acts. Jakob Locher (also called Philomusus)
(1471-1528) was a humanist playwright, scholar and translator. This edition was published by Johann
Grüninger (Reinhard), a Strassburg printer.

Figure 11: Magnus page, incipit with guide letter for initial
Figure 12: Magnus crude title page
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Paradisus Animae, Sive Tractatus de Virtutibus. Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1498.
Quarto. 140 x 200 mm. [36] leaves, including a final blank leaf. The Latin text is written in black letter in
2 columns, with capital spaces and guide letters. The final page in the text bears the printed book label of
Sauveur-Jérôme Morand (or Fr. Morand, canon of the La Sainte-Chapelle, Paris). The binding is vellum,
possibly eighteenth-century. This is the fourth edition of an ethical treatise first published ca.1473 at
Cologne and the first edition to be published at Strassburg. The text is a work on Christian life that deals
with human virtues and touches on psychology and religion. The author is possibly Albertus Magnus (ca.
AD 1193/1206 –1280), also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, a Catholic saint. Albertus’
literary output was large, and includes over 70 philosophical, scientific, and theological treatises
comprising more than 20,000 pages in MS, making him perhaps the most prolific Latin author of the whole
of the Middle Ages. The Bavarian State Library Catalogue (Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek:
Inkunabelkatalog (BSB-Ink)) assigns authorship of this work to the Pseudo-Albertus Magnus. This edition
was printed by Martin Flach (the elder).

Figure 13: Detail from the Annunciation
Figure 14: Litany with line fillers Figure 15: illuminated initial with
border spray
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of Premonstratensian Use, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on Vellum
[Southern Netherlands, probably Hainault. c.1500].
160 x 110 mm. [123 leaves], plus 3 medieval flyleaves. The written area is 107 x 72 mm, 15 lines, ruled in
red ink, written in dark brown ink in a gothic liturgical hand, partly with horizontal catchwords, rubrics in
red, capitals touched in yellow, versal initials alternately blue with red penwork and burnished gold with
purple penwork, line fillers, decorated 2-line and 3-line initials with partial borders of sprays of coloured
and gold leaves and petals, twelve large illuminated initials with full illuminated borders, the initials 4-lines
high, the borders in designs of coloured acanthus leaves and flowers, with five full page miniatures in
arched compartments in matching full borders. The binding is early sixteenth-century blind-stamped calf
over pasteboards. The calendar singles out in red St. Piat and St. Ghislain, indicating the book must have
been made in or for use in the county of Hainault. This manuscript was illuminated by a woman artist,
Cornelia Van Wulfschkerke (d.1540), a nun of the calced (wears shoes as opposed to going barefooted)
Carmelite convent of Sion at Bruges. She is recorded as having illuminated many manuscripts, including
multiple servicebooks for her own abbey and other devotional books. Any Book of Hours attributable to a
named artist is a rarity. A Book of Hours by a named woman artist woman is exceptional because there is
little evidence of any female artists in the Middle Ages. A digital copy of this work may be viewed on
Memorial University Libraries’ Digital Archives Initiative at http://collections.mun.ca/u?/rarebooks,661

Figure 16: Page from the Tacuinus printing (1500) of Tibullus, Catullus and Propertius
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Elegiae (Comm: Bernardinus Cyllenius). Add: Catullus: Carmina (Comm: Antonius
Parthenius and Palladius Fuscus). Propertius: Elegiae (Comm: Philippus Beroaldus).
Ed: Hieronymus Avantius. Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 19 May 1500.
Folio. 305 x 210 mm. [182] leaves. The Latin text is in roman type. Commentaries surround the classical
verses. There are decorated wood cut initials throughout. The binding is eighteenth-century tree-calf. The
verses are by the Roman poets Albius Tibullus (ca. 55 BC – 19 BC), Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC –
ca. 54 BC) and Sextus Propertius: (c. 50–45 BC —15 BC). The commentaries are by editor and compiler
Bernardinus Cyllenius (1475-1520); by Antonius Parthenius, a fifteenth century professor of Greek and
Latin at Verona; and by humanist scholars Palladius Fuscus (d. 1520) and Philippus Beroaldus ( 1453-
1506). The text was edited by Hieronymus Avantius (died after 1554), who was a doctor of arts and
medicine, and professor of philosophy at Padua. This edition was printed by Joannes Tacuinus, de Cereto
de Tridino who was active in Venice between 1492 and 1542.

Figure 17: Aldus (1502) Italics
Figure 18: Aldus (1502) colophon
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Catvllvs, Tibvllvs, Propertivs. Venice: Aldus, 1502.
Octavo. 160 x 100 mm. [304] pages. The Latin text is printed entirely in italics. There are capital spaces
with guide letters for initials. The binding is eighteenth century Harleian style, recently repaired. The inside
cover bears the bookplate of Maurice Baring. Baring was an English dramatist, poet, novelist, translator
and essayist. The text contains selections from Roman poets Tibullus (ca. 55 BC– 9 BC), Gaius Valerius
Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) and Sextus Propertius: (ca. 50–45 BC –15 BC). This edition was printed
by Aldo Manuzio (Aldus Manutius ca.1451-1515). Aldus printed Greek classics in the original language.
He commission new fonts from Francesco Griffo, who modelled his roman and Greek types on
contemporary humanist scripts. Aldus also commissioned the first italic type (1500). Erasmus called the
Aldine italic types the ‘neatest types in the world.’ Aldus was innovative in business as well; he produced
pocket editions of the Latin classics, with press runs of up to 3000 copies. From 1502 onward the Aldine
brand employed the dolphin and anchor printer’s device. For much of his career he was the only source of
printed Greek texts.

Figure 19: Heroides, first page of main text with hand colouring
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Epistole Heroides Exculte Aptissimisque Figuris Ornate: (Comm. Antonio Volsco, Ubertino
Crescentinate, Domitio Calderino & Christophoro Zaroto). Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de
Tridino, 1510.
Folio. 300 x 310 mm. [228] pages. The Latin text is printed in in roman font. There is a woodcut
illustration at the head of the title page representing Ovid and two commentators. Throughout the text there
are many woodblock illustrations of women in the act of writing. There are also many decorated capitals.
Many of the capitals are negative cut (white lines against a black background) while the illustrations are
positive cut. Several illustrations show signs of hand colouration, which may have occurred at a later date.
There are hand-written annotations throughout. At a couple of places in the margins there is a date
handwritten in black ink: “1543.” The binding is nineteenth century quarter-calf and marble board. The
Heroides (The Heroines), or Epistulae Heroidum (Letters of Heroines) is a collection of fifteen epistolary
poems composed by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC–AD 17) in Latin elegiac couplets, and presented
as though written by unhappy heroines of Greek and Roman mythology, in address to their lovers who have
wronged them. This edition was printed in Venice by Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino.

Figure 20: Aldus, Printer's Mark
Figure 21: Suida, sample page with worm holes.
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Tò mèn paròn biblìon, Souída. Hoì dè syntaksámenio toûto, ándres sophoí ... [edited by
D. Chalcondylas.] – Suidas. Aldus, 1514.
Folio. 325 x 22 mm. [392] leaves. The text is in Greek. There are capital spaces with guide letters. There
are two catchwords per signature. The Aldus printer’s mark is on both the title page and final page. The
date of compilation for this work is thought to be around AD 1000. The entries are organized in
alphabetical order. Souda explains difficult grammatical forms, rare words, and proverbs, and comments on
persons, places, institutions, and even concepts (such as the cosmos or physics). Souda is a compilation of
compilations. At the time of this printing the title was misunderstood. Eustathios of Thessalonike
interpreted it as a name, Suidas. In fact, nothing is known of the compiler himself except that he lived
about the middle of the tenth century, at Constantinople, and that he was probably an ecclesiastical person
devoted to literary studies. This edition was printed by Aldo Manuzio (Aldus Manutius ca.1451-1515).
Aldus printed Greek classics in the original language. S. H. Steinberg points out that Aldus’s liking for
cursive letters, which made him a pioneer in the printing of Latin texts, led him to commission Greek fonts
which made the fine printing of Greek texts almost impossible. Steinberg claims that Aldus chose “as a
model for his Greek type the informal everyday hand of his Greek-scholar friends, a careless and ugly
script.”

Figure 22: History of the Lombards, title page
Figure 23: Lombards, detail from main text
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De origine et gestis regum Langobarorum. Paris : Jean Petit, 1514.
Folio. 250 x 190 mm. Foliation begins on A and runs to XXXVIII. [79] pages. The Latin text is in roman type, with
running headers in black letter. There is a general index at the front together with a list of Lombard kings. The title
page sits within an ornamental border with the mark of Jean Petit (lion with leopard). There is printed marginalia
throughout. There are decorated capitals, some of which are historiated. The binding is vellum over boards. This
copy bears several interesting marks of provenance, including an armorial stamp in gilt on the front and back covers
that is identical to that of is that of Jean L'Evesque de la Cassiere, Grand Master of the Order of Malta, 1572-1581.
The title page bears the inscription “Sum Ex Libris Gothofredi, Dalij/ Anno 1611.” Paul the Deacon (ca.720–99)
was also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefred and Cassinensis (i.e. "of Monte Cassino"). He was a Benedictine
monk, grammarian, poet, and historian of the Lombards and of the bishops of Metz. He served at the Lombard
court and moved to Charlemagne’s court after conquest by the Franks. This work was written in the last decades of
the eight century, at Montecassino. It covers the story of the Lombards from 568 to the death of King Liutprand in
744. This edition was printed by Jean Petit (d. 1530), a prominent Parisian printer in the late fifteenth and early
sixteenth centuries.
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Figure 24: Treatise on Virtue, double page
Figure 25: Treatise on Virtue, detail
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(Manuscript: Northern France, probably Paris, ca. 1500-25).
123 x 97 mm, with a written area 70 x 50 mm, ruled in red. The humanist script is written in brown ink in a
single column of 16 lines. There are 17 two-line initials in red and blue on gold grounds with white
penwork details, sometimes infilled with delicate foliage, a few slightly damaged or discoloured; over 80
one-line paraf marks in gold on red and blue grounds; infrequent line-fillers in red and blue with white
penwork details. Rubricated throughout, and the rubricated marginal references are sometimes highlighted
with bright blue parafs. The work is foliated 1-40 in modern pencil. The text is fragmentary, and probably
unique. The work is a compendium on the virtues, written in Latin, combining biblical, patristic, medieval
scholastic and classical sources. The leather binding is recent.

Figure 26: Cover of Greiffenberger’s pamphlet
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Ein Christenliche Antwordt denen, die da sprechen das Evangelio[n] hab sein krafft vo[n]
der Kirchen verlegt mit götlicher Geschrift auff das kürtzist zu trost den Christen inn
Christo. [Bamberg: Georg Erlinger, 1524].
Quarto. 180 x 140 mm. [8] pages. The title page has a four-part woodcut border. The German text is
printed in black letter. This is the sole edition of this tract by the Nuremberg painter Hans Greiffenberger.
The title translates as “A Christian Answer to those who say The Gospel has its Power from the Church.”
Greiffenberger refers to the Reformation as that rebirth of the spirit, a kind of extraordinary grace given to
mankind in the last days. Greiffenberger is known as one of the more prolific of German lay pamphleteers,
publishing seven pamphlets, two in 1523 and five in 1524. The printer of this pamphlet is Georg Erlinger
(ca. 1485-1541). He was court printer of the prince-bishop of Bamberg. Erlinger printed several
Reformation works, including some by Martin Luther.

Figure 27: Detail from main text
Figure 28: Printer's mark of Thomas Platter
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Onomasticon…Basel: Thomas Platter, 1536.
Quarto. 220 x 14 mm. There is an index in roman font at the front of the book, with two more indexes (one
in Greek and one in Latin) at the rear of the book. The main text is in Greek, printed in double columns,
each of 41 lines. The columns are numbered [562]. There are several decorated and historiated capitals. A
colophon exists on the verso of aA3. Thomas Patter’s printer’s mark is on the verso of the second to last
blank page. The inside cover bears the bookplate of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, a nineteenth century
English Quaker. The contemporary binding is repaired with canvas tape. The work is a thesaurus of terms
by Greek scholar and rhetorician Julius Pollux (2nd century AD, Naucratis, Egypt). The 10-volume work,
which has survived incomplete, contains rhetorical material and technical terms relating to a wide variety
of subjects, as well as citations from literature. This edition was printed by Swiss humanist Thomas Platter
(1499–1582).

Figure 29: Polyhistor Title Page
Figure 30: Sebastianus Gryphius’ printer’s device
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C. Iulii Solini polyhistor. Lyon: Sébastien Gryph, 1538.
Octavo. 110 x 170 mm. 165, [24] pages. Page numbers are in Arabic numerals. The title page shows
evidence of repair and bears Sébastien Gryph’s (Sebastianus Gryphius) printer’s device of a griffin. A
single decorated woodblock initial opens the text. The main text is in Latin, printed in in italics with
headings in uppercase roman font. The text is underlined in places, sometimes with hand-written
annotations. There is an index at the rear of the book. The printer’s device is repeated on the final page. The
binding is limp vellum. Julius Caius Solinus was a Roman geographer of the 3 rd century AD. This work
('The Wonders of the World') circulated both under the title Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium (Collection
of Curiosities), and Polyhistor. The work contains a short description of the ancient world, with
commentary on historical, social, religious and natural history questions. This edition was printed by
Sébastien Gryph’s (1493-1556), a Lyon printer of German origin (Greiff), also known as Gryphe.

Figure 31: Title page with printer’s mark of Robert Estienne
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Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis, tum ex optimorum, praefertim veterum,
exemplarium collatione, diligentius quam unquam antehac, emendatae. Paris: Robert
Estienne, 1541.
Quarto. 250 x 170 mm. 486 pages. The Latin text is in roman font, with printed footnotes and margin notes.
The title page bears the printer’s mark of Robert Estienne (Robertus Stephanus). The binding is seventeenth
century, rebacked at a later date. Terence (ca.189 BC–159 BC) was a Roman comic playwright. This work
contains all six Terence comedies: Andria (The Girl from Andros,), Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law), Heauton
Timroumenos (The Self-Tormentor), Eunuchus (The Eunuch), Phormio, and Adelphi (The Brothers). Each
of the plays is an adaptation from Greek New Comedy: four from Menander and two (The Mother-in-
Law and Phormio) from Apollodorus. The printer is French biblical scholar, lexicographer, and printerpublisher
Robert I Estienne (1503–1559).

Figure 32: Daretis, opening page of text
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Daretis Phrygii Poetarum et Hystoricarum omnium primi, de bello Troiano... Basel: 1541.
Octavo. 150 x 100 mm. [16] 612 pages. There is a full page hand-written Latin inscription on front
pastedown. The verso of the title page bears a signature. The main text is in italics, with running titles in
roman capitals. There are catch words and decorated wood-block capitals. The text has been underlined in
numerous places and occasionally there are annotations. The binding is contemporary blind-stamped
vellum over paste boards. In the 12th century, the English poet Joseph of Exeter adapted into Latin
hexameters the popular medieval account by Dares the Phrygian of the events of the Trojan War. In this
first edition, authorship is wrongly attributed to Dares. It was not until the Frankfurt edition of 1620 that
Joseph's name was correctly attached to the poem. This volume bears a library stamp on the title page
“Gymnasium Fridericianum in Scherwin:” (Fridericianum Schwerin is an altsprachliches school in the old
town of Schwerin that dates back more than 450 years). The printer of this work is unknown.

Figure 33: Fortunetelling, astrological symbols
Figure 34: Fortunetelling, title woodcut
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Warsager Kunst. [Frankfurt]: [Christian Egenolff], 1541.
Quarto. 140 x 170 mm. [36] pages. The text is in German, printed in black letter. There is a full-page title
woodcut of a nobleman having his palm read by an unusually dressed woman. The main text is illustrated
with 48 woodcuts that symbolically interpret the astrological signs, constellations, fixed stars, and planets.
The vellum binding and slipcase are recent. The author of this work is unknown. This rare work on fortune
telling, first published in 1536, contains instructions on how to learn to prophesize by a letter-number
system, using the planets, under which one was born. There are descriptions of the seven planets and their
properties, with further instructions on how the reader can learn a simple system to determine his own
correct sign. The effects of the twelve signs of the zodiac, the four body temperaments and the four
elements are documented. The printer is Christian Egenolff or Egenolph (1502-1555).

Figure 35: Title page with printer's device of Hieronymus Froben
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Parekbolai Eis Ten Homerou Iliada Kai Odysseian Meta Euporo tatou Kai Pany
Ophelimou Pinakos: Eustathii Archiepiscopi Thessalonicae, in Homeri Iliadis Et
Odysseae Libros Parekbolai : Indice Adiuncto Perutili & Copioso: Basel, [Hieronymus] Froben, 1560.
Folio. 210 x 320 mm. 751 pages. This is volume one of a three volume set. The Froben printer's device is
on the title page. The preliminary leaves are in Latin. The main text is of verse surrounded by commentary,
both in Greek. There are woodcut capitals and catchwords. The panel-stamped leather binding over boards
has been rebacked. The brass corner mounts are intact. All three volumes show manuscript material under
the rear pastedown. Eustathios of Thessalonike was a church official, scholar, and writer (ca.AD 1115—
AD 1195/6). This works is Eustathios’ commentary on the works of Homer, which include the remarks of
earlier researchers and sometimes uses the epic in alluding to contemporary events. This copy bears the
following in black ink on the inside cover: “Bibliotheca sedis Episcopalis/ apud NEWFOUNDLAND
interindos Occidentales/ sacrum voluit/ Joannes Wilson S.J.B. Coll: sanctis et individux Trinitatis/ in Acad:
Oxon Socius/ M. DCCCXLIV” as well as the library stamp of Queen’s College. The title page bears the
inscription “Societatis Jesu Brugis ex domo P. Gail Verannernod. This is the second printed edition. The
printer is Hieronymus Froben (1501–1563), the eldest son of Johann Froben, who began the Froben
printing dynasty in Basel in 1536.
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Figure 36: Page from John Lydgate's The Fall of Princes
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The Tragedies, gathered by John Bochas, of all such Princes as fell from theyr estates
throughe the mutability of Fortune since the creation of Adam, until his time: wherein
may be seen what vices bring menne to destruccion, wyth notable warnings howe the like
may be avoyded… London: John Wayland, [1554].
Folio. 220 x 310 mm. [9], clxiii, xxvi, xxxv-xxxvii leaves. The title page has a woodcut architectural border
with Royal arms and figure. The English text is printed in black letter. There are decorated woodcut
capitals, paraph marks and catchwords throughout. New front and endpapers have been added and are
probably contemporary with the Cambridge-style panel binding. John Lydgate (1370–1449) spent most of
his life in a monastery at Bury. He was a prolific poet and until the seventeenth century was often
compared favourably with Chaucer and Gower. This work is based on Boccaccio’s The Fates of Famous
Men. The poem follows the pattern familiar to English readers from Chaucer's Monk's Tale. The fallen
princes pass in front of the author, Bochas, and tell their stories. The printer of this edition is John
Wayland. Wayland was both a citizen and a scrivener of London and resided at the sign of the Blue
Garland in Fleet Street in 1541, later moving to the sign of the Sun against the Conduit.

Figure. 37: Title page from Historia dell'India America
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Historia dell'India America. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1561.
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Octavo. 155 x 105 mm. XXXII, 364 pages. The decorative title page bears the printer’s mark of a phoenix
emerging from flames atop a globe with the initials G.G.F. The Italian text is printed entirely in italics with
headings in uppercase roman font. There are woodcut capitals throughout. There is a colophon and printer’s
mark at the end of the text. The vellum binding is contemporary vellum. André Thevet was a Franciscan
friar, writer and traveller. This work is M. Giuseppe Horologgi’s translation from the French of Thevet’s
Les singularitez de la France Antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique, purportedly recording the
author’s travels in Brazil and North America. Thevet writes as if recording his own experiences and, while
he did travel to Brazil, he never came to Canada or Newfoundland. Instead, he compiled his descriptions of
these places from interviews with those who had, as well as from other published accounts. The printer is
Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari (ca. 1508 – 1578). He was one of the first major publishers of literature in the
vernacular Italian language.

Figure 38: Bishop's Bible title page recreated in pencil and ink
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conteyning the olde Testament and the newe: the "Great Bible" of Cranmer / revised
under the superintendence of M. Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury by W. Alley, Bishop
of Exeter, and other bishops. London: R. Iugge, 1568.
Folio. 410 x 280 mm. [22], cxxviii, clxxxv, cciiii, cxviii, clvi leaves : ill., maps. 400 x 380 mm. The first
three words on the title page are xylographic and below them is an engraved plate incorporating a portrait
of Queen Elizabeth (in this copy the whole page is reproduced in pencil). The other sections of this work
recreated in handwriting and with drawings are the Preface, the prologue to pt. 3, Psalms 1-5, Rev. XVII
and 17 to XXII. The main text in English is in black letter, with headings printed in Roman type. There are
illustrated wood-cut, paraph marks, catch words, as well as chapter and verse numbers. The Bible contains
several maps, all of which except for one were copied from the Geneva Bible. There are also 124 woodcut
illustrations, the blocks designed by Virgil Solis, a German graphic designer. The blocks had been used in
other bibles. This copy of the Bishops’ Bible was rebound (ca. 1824). This first-edition English translation
of the Bible was compiled at the direction of Archbishop M. Parker. It is the most lavishly illustrated
English bible of the Renaissance. The printer was R. Jugge, London. Jugge was master of the Stationers’
Company four times between 1568 and 1574. This copy was a gift to Memorial University from Mr and
Mrs George D. Clifford of Cambridge, England to mark their visit to Newfoundland in 1971.

Figure 39: Anatomie
Figure 40: Bullein's stills
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Bulleins Bulwarke of Defense Against All Sickness, Soareness and Woundes that doe
dayly assaulte mankinde: Which Bulwarke is kept with Hilarius the Gardener, & Health
the Phisicion, with the Chirurgian, to helpe the Wounded Souldiours. Gathered and
practised from the most worthy learned, both olde and new: to the great comfort of
mankinde: by William Bullein, Doctor of Phisicke. London: Thomas Marshe, 1579.
Folio. 290 x 190 mm. [4], 85, [9], 46, [2], 43, [9], 33, [2] leaves. The title page has been replaced with a
facsimile. There are decorated capitals throughout and woodcut illustrations that can be traced to earlier
works. The text in English is printed in black letter, with headings in Roman and in italics. There are
several hand-written annotations. The inside cover bears the bookplate of “John M Traherne” FRS. The
facsimile title page bears a stamp on the verso “MVSEVM BTITAN/NICV,” indicating it is from the
British Library and was added to that collection between 1753 and 1836. The sprinkled calf binding has
been rebacked. William Bullein was a kinsman of Anne Boleyn. He was born in the Isle of Ely during the
reign of Henry VIII, probably between the years 1520 and 1530. He practiced medicine in the North of
England. He died in ca. 1575/6. The book consists of four works, with a fifth represented by a single page:
The Book of Simples, A Dialogue betwene Sorenes and Chyrurgi on Apostumacions and Wounds; The
Anatomie (one page); The Booke of Compoundes; and The Booke of the Use of Sick Men and Medicens.
The work was printed by Thomas Marshe or Marsh, who was an original member of the Stationers
Company.

Figure 41: Cooper’s Admonition, title page with Bray Library stamp
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An Admonition to the People of England: Wherein Are Answered, Not Onely the
Slaunderous Vntruethes, Reprochfully Vttered by Martin the Libeller, but Also Many
Other Crimes by Some of His Broode, Obiected Generally against All Bishops, and the
Chiefe of the Cleargie, Purposely to Deface and Discredite the Present State of the
Church. London: Christopher Barker, 1589.
Quarto. 180 x 130 mm. [8], 64 pages, 65-78 leaves, 79-252 pages. The English text is printed in roman
font, with running titles in italics, and decorative woodcut capitals. There are printed margin notes and a
several hand-written annotations. The title page bears a Bray Library stamp at the bottom. A Bray Lending
Library label is on the inside cover and a Bray Lending Library Rules label on the inside back cover. The
binding is half-calf with snail-pattern marble boards, probably nineteenth century. Pages 59-64 show scorch
marks at the top fore-edge. Thomas Cooper (d. 1594) became Bishop of Lincoln in 1771 and Bishop of
Winchester in 1584. This work, a first edition, is Cooper’s response to the Marprelate pamphlets. Martin
Marprelate was the pseudonym of a Puritan writer who attacked strict censorship policies enforced by
Archbishop Whitgift in 1586. Cooper was subsequently the target of a Marprelate pamphlet. The printer is
Christopher Barker (c.1528/29-1599).

Figure 42: Pulton's Statutes, title page
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An Abstract of all the penall Statues which can be generall, in force and use...
London: Thomas Wight, 1600.
Quarto. [16], 404 leaves. There is a subject index before the main text, followed by a dedication to “Sir
William Cordell Knight, Master of the Roules.” The dedication and headings are in roman, with the main
text and margin notes in black letter. The text begins with a single decorated capital. There are catchwords
throughout. The binding is canvas, probably contemporary with new front and end papers. Ferdinando
Pulton was a former fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. He joined Lincoln’s Inn in 1559 but, being a
Roman Catholic, was never called to the Bar. Unable to practice, he devoted his life to the production of
reference works, especially in relation to statutes. This work, a second edition, is an early attempt to bring
together a comprehensive work on English criminal law. The printer is Thomas Wight (died ca. 1608), a
bookseller, publisher and draper of London.

Introduction
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Knoll Press, 1994. pages 23-39.
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"medieval" in the "Renaissance". Ed. George Harpo Tucker. Charlottesville, Va: Rookwood Press, 2000. Print.
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Entry 1:
“BOOK OF HOURS, use of Utrecht, in Dutch, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM,” Christies. Sale
7882/ Lot 15. Web. 23 November, 2010. The catalogue entry is based on this auctioneer’s description.
Hülsmann, Margriet. “An identifiable Haarlem scribe active c.1455 to c.1465 in the environment of the Master of
the Haarlem Bible.” Quaerendo: v. 33 (1-2), p.119. Print.
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Gwara, Scott. “Dutch Missal (Major Feasts (Christmas, Easter, etc.), Proper of Saints, Canon, and some Masses for
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2010. The catalogue entry is based on dealer Scott Gwara’s description.
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Cosenza, Mario Emilio. Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists and of the world of
classical scholarship in Italy, 1300-1800. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1962-1967. Print.
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University Press, 1998. Oxford Reference Online. Web. 17 September, 2012
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BIBLES, MINIATURE BOOKS, THEOLOGY, CLASSICS, LAW, HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, etc.”
Word document from dealer Jeffrey Mancevice. 7 October , 2011.
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Company, 1912. Web. 18 December, 2012
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Woudhuysen. v.2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.
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BIBLES, MINIATURE BOOKS, THEOLOGY, CLASSICS, LAW, HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, etc.”
Word document from dealer Jeffrey Mancevice. 7 October , 2011.
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"Albertus Magnus, St" The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed Robert E. Bjork. Oxford University Press,
2010. Oxford Reference Online. Web. 17 September 2012.
Mancevice, Jeffrey. “AUGUST LIST OF RARE BOOKS INCUNABULA, ILLUSTRATED, FESTIVAL BOOKS,
BIBLES, MINIATURE BOOKS, THEOLOGY, CLASSICS, LAW, HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, etc.”
Word document from dealer Jeffrey Mancevice. 7 October , 2011.
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“Book of Hours, of Premonstratensian Use, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on Vellum. Sotheby’s.
Western Manuscripts & Miniatures. Lot 75. 1996. Web. October 7, 2012. The catalogue entry is based on this
dealer’s description.
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Cosenza, Mario Emilio. Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists and of the world of
classical scholarship in Italy, 1300-1800. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1962-1967. Print.
Norton, F. J. Italian printers, 1501-1520 : an annotated list, with an introd. London : Bowes and Bowes, 1958. Print
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Cosenza, Mario Emilio. Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists and of the world of
classical scholarship in Italy, 1300-1800. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1962-1967. Print.
Norton, F. J. Italian printers, 1501-1520 : an annotated list, with an introd. London : Bowes and Bowes, 1958. Print
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2010. Oxford Reference Online. Web. October 10, 2012.
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Aldus Manutius (c.1451-1515) and Manutius Family.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. eds. Michael F. Suarez
and H.R. Woudhuysen. v.1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.
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Kazhdan, Alexander. "Souda" The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Ed. Alexander P. Kazhdan. Oxford University
Press 1991. Oxford Reference Online. Web. 30 August, 2012
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Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. Print.
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The armorial stamp was identified by Professor Alain J. Stoclet, University of Toronto. Personal e-mail. March 17,
2011.
Huguette Taviani-Carozzi "Paul the Deacon." Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Ed. André Vauchez. © 2001 by
James Clarke & Co. Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (e-reference edition). Distributed by Oxford University Press.
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Entry 13:
Gwara, Scott. “Dutch Missal (Major Feasts (Christmas, Easter, etc.), Proper of Saints, Canon, and some Masses for
the Common).” King Alfred’s Notebook LLC: ENCHIRIDION 7: Medieval Manuscripts for University Teaching &
Research, Cont’d.. PDF from dealer. 13 December, 2011, 2010. The catalogue entry is based on this dealer Scott
Gwara’s description.
Entry 14:
Dowling, Paul. WarnerReformation 10-9-12. Word document from dealer Paul Dowling containing catalogue
descriptions of various pamphlets for sale. October 9, 2012
Russell, Paul A. Lay Theology in the Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Schottenloher, Karl. Die Buchdruckerta tigkeit Georg Erlingers in Bamberg von 1522 bis 1541 (1543)
ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Reformationszeit. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1969. Web. November 25, 2012.
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"Julius Pollux." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia
Britannica Inc., 2012. Web. 18 Sep. 2012.
"Platter, Thomas" The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance. ed. Gordon Campbell. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Oxford Reference Online. 18 September, 2012.
Entry 16:
Caius Julius Solinus." Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. ed. James MacKillop. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Oxford Reference Online. Web. 25 Oct. 2012.
“Gryphius, Sebastianus.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. eds. Michael F. Suarez and H.R. Woudhuysen. v.2.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.
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“Solinus, Gaius Julius.” The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general
information. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (11th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1911. Print.
Entry 17:
“Estienne, Robert I.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. ed. Hans J. Hillebrand. Oxford University Press,
2005. Oxford Reference Online. Web. December 18, 2012.
“Terence.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. ed. Michael Gagarin. Oxford. Oxford University
Press. Oxford Reference Online. Web. November 5, 2012.
Entry 18:
“A Source for Chaucer and Shakespeare.” Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller. n.d. Web. October 21, 2012.
Burton, Edwin Hubert. “Joseph of Exeter.” Catholic Encyclopaedia (2013). 3 February, 2012. Web. December 3,
2012.
Entry 19:
“Egenolff the elder, Christian.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. eds. Michael F. Suarez and H.R. Woudhuysen.
v.2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.
Mancevice, Jeffrey. “RARE BOOK CATALOGUE 41: Early Continental Books: 15th to 18th century
Incunabula, Reformation, Festival Books, Illustrated, Woman Authors & Studies, Science, Theology, Alchemy
The Inquisition, Education, etc..” JEFFREY D. MANCEVICE, INC. PDF document from dealer Jeffrey Mancevice.
9 October , 2011.
Entry 20:
“Eustathios of Thessalonike" The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Ed. Alexander P. Kazhdan. Oxford University
Press 1991. Oxford Reference Online. Web. 30 August, 2012.
“Froben Family.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. eds. Michael F. Suarez and H.R. Woudhuysen. v.2. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.
Entry 21:
Krown & Spellman Booksellers. Dealer’s catalogue entry for this work. January 10, 2012.
“Lydgate, John.” The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)Edited by Margaret Drabble, Jenny
Stringer, Daniel Hahn. Oxford University Press, 2007. Oxford reference Online/ Web. November 27, 2012.
Timperley, Charles Henry. A dictionary of printers and printing: with the progress of literature ancient and
modern, Bibliographical Illustrations. London, H. Johnson. 1839. Web. November 12, 2012.
Entry 22:
“Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrar.” Wikipedia The Free Encyclopaedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 22 April, 2011. Web.
December 14, 2012
Thevet, André. The Oxford Companion to World Exploration, ed. David Buisseret. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Oxford Reference Online. Web. November 19, 2012.
Trudel, Marcel. "Thevet, André.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000.
Web. December 11, 2012.
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Entry 23:
“Bishops’ Bible.” The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 rev ed.) Edited by F. L. Cross, E. A.
Livingstone. Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford reference Online. Web. August 15, 2012.
Duff, Gordon E. A Century of the English Book Trade. Short notices of all printers, stationers, book-binders, and
others connected with it from the issue of the first dated book in 1457 to the incorporation of the Company of
stationers in 1557. London, Bibliographical society, 1948.
Price, David and Charles C. Ryrie. LET IT GO AMONG OUR PEOPLE: An Illustrated History of the English Bible
from John Wyclif to the King James Version. Cambridge: the Lutterworth Press, 2004. Print.
Entry 24:
Mitchell, William S. “William Bullein, Elizabethan Physician and Author.” Medical History: 3.3 (1959): 188–200.
Web December 1, 2012.
“Provenance Research. Library Stamps.” British Library. n.d. Web. December 9, 2012.
Timperley, Charles Henry. A dictionary of printers and printing: with the progress of literature ancient and
modern, Bibliographical Illustrations. London, H. Johnson. 1839. Web. November 12, 2012.
Entry 25:
“Barker, Christopher.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. eds. Michael F. Suarez and H.R. Woudhuysen. v.2.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.
“Cooper, Thomas.” Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 3 rd Rev. ed. Edited by F. L. Cross, E. A. Livingstone.
Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Web. November 13, 2012.
Entry 26:
Baker, J.H.“English law books and legal publishing.” The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Eds. John
Barnard, D. F. McKenzie and Maureen Bell. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Cambridge Histories Online. Web.
13 December 2012.
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